Mokarrameh Ebrahimi is a 43 year old woman and mother of an 11 year old who has spent the past 11 years in Choubin prison in Ghazvin after being sentenced to stoning. The father of the child has also scheduled to be stoned with her.
Tuesday June 19, 2007, 7:27 pm
URGENT: A Man and a Woman Schedule To Be Stoned on Thursday, June 21
Stop Stoning Forever Campaign
Urgent Press Release
No. 86-3-a
URGENT: A Man and a Woman Schedule To Be Stoned on Thursday, June 21
The news about the scheduled stoning of a man and a woman in Takistan, Ghazvin, was spread through mobile phone messages and the Internet. The office of Showraye Tameen of Ghazvin province has issued the order to stone and man and a woman in public.
The judge of Branch 1 of the Criminal Court of Takistan will be present in person to throw the first stone. This was scheduled to be done on Sunday, June 17, but the Office of Showraye Tameen of Ghazvin province postponed it to Thursday, June 21.
Mokarrameh Ebrahimi is a 43 year old woman and mother of an 11 year old who has spent the past 11 years in Choubin prison in Ghazvin after being sentenced to stoning. The father of the child has also been in prison for 11 years and is scheduled to be stoned with her.
According to the Meydaan, the official site of the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign, an informed source has verified the news and added that "the pits are dug and prepared in Behesht Zahra cemetery to implement the sentence."
This source also added that the sentence has been issued solely based on the judge's knowledge, and there have been no witnesses to the so called crime of adultery and having a child out of wedlock. It seems that the couple have lived together for a while and shortly after been imprisoned. There are different rumors about the woman's past. Some say that her husband had thrown her out of the house and she had been living with her mother for two years. Both the man and the woman have children from their previous marriages. Mokarrameh, who is the mother of three children, is very distressed and in sever disarray in prison.
It seems that after the appeal to the Judicial Commission for Amnesty and Clemency had been rejected, it is going to be carried out as the result of the perseverance of one of the judiciary officials in Ghazvin.
The official announcement about the stoning is going to be posted at the site of execution in order to invite the public to participate in the process in Takistan. This is while the Iranian officials continue to deny any stoning sentence.
The Stop Stoning Forever Campaign activists plea to the citizens of the world to take any actions they possibly can in order to stop the stoning of this couple from taking place.
Further detailed information will be provided as campaign activists are trying to obtain more knowledge about the case in Takistan. To contact campaign activists in the US or Iran please email Soheila Vahdati < soheilavahdati@gmail.com> or Shadi Sadr < shadisadr@gmail.com>.
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Tuesday June 19, 2007, 7:29 pm
Stop Stoning Forever Campaign
Send this petition to:
The Head of Judiciary
The Head of Parliament
Subject:
Petition to Eradicate the Law of Stoning
Petition:
To: His Excellency Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Cc: Mr. Golam-Ali Haddad-Adel, the leader of the Iranian Parliament
The act of punishing people by stoning them to death in today’s world is such an unacceptable and inhuman act of brutality that even the members of the government are ashamed of admitting to doing it, and have publicly denied that this merciless practice takes place in Iran. Despite the government’s denial, this penalty is a sanctioned part of the Islamic Penal Code of Iran and it is being carried out without any legal obstacles.
We, the undersigned are extremely alarmed that the punishment of stoning to death has been adopted by the country’s legal system as a reasonable and acceptable form of retribution. Although, in December of 2002, your Excellency placed a ban on carrying out this type of sentence, in reality stonings have continued to take place in different parts of the country. In May 2006, in the city of Mashhad, a woman Mahboubeh M. and a man Abbas H. were both stoned to death.
Prior to carrying out the stoning, prior to their death, these two people were treated as if they were dead. In accordance with the Islamic tradition, their bodies were washed as if they were lifeless corpses, and wrapped in the kafan or white shroud. Then their wrapped bodies were buried in the ground, Mahboubeh’s body was buried up to her shoulders, and Abbas was buried up to his waist. The crowd, who had gathered to stone the two to death slowly as specified by law, then targeted them with their stones. All this took place without any mention of it in the public media of the country.
Apart from the above mentioned two cases, at least eleven people, nine women and two men as listed below have been condemned to be stoned to death. Their situation is grave. It is also possible that there are other people who have been condemned to death by stoning and we are not aware of it.
According to Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, signed and ratified by Iran in 1975, “in countries which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes”. Article 7 of the same covenant states that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment.” Despite ratifying the above covenant, the Islamic penal code gives the judges the right to sentence the accused to death by stoning even when the crime of adultery has not been proved according to the same penal code’s standards and requirements. Article #105 of the Islamic penal code gives the judges the absolute right to condemn the accused to death by stoning solely based on the judge’s subjective interpretation of the case.
We the undersigned demand and stress the need to change all laws contrary to human rights. We believe there are no crimes that deserve the punishment of stoning to death and we insist that this inhumane practice should be abolished forever.
http://www.meydaan.com/Stoning/petition.aspx?cid=46&pid=9
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Wednesday June 20, 2007, 6:25 am
You Only Have Hours to Oppose the Scheduled Public Stoning of Mokarrameh and Her Partner
The stoning of Mokarrameh Ebrahimi and her partner is scheduled to be carried out in public in the city of Takistan, Ghazvin, at 9:00 am on Thursday, June 21, for committing adultery and having a child out of wedlock. The decision for execution of stoning in public, and moreover, inviting the public to participate in the stoning have been made by the Ghazvin Municipal Security Council or Showraye Tameen of Ghazvin. The news of the scheduled stoning has been published by the campaign activists on June 19, 2007. (Please read more at http://www.meydaan.org/news.aspx?nid=392)
The Stop Stoning Forever Campaign invites all citizens of the world to contact the Iranian officials by phone and/or fax and ask them to stop the public stoning of Mokarrameh Ebrahimin, the 43 year old mother of three children, and her partner, the father of her 11 year old child. Please note that email may not be effective.
Also, please note the time difference since the stoning is scheduled for Thursday, June 21, in the morning, Tehran time, which is Wednesday evening and midnight in the US and Europe. Please act now before it is too late!
Ghazvin State Government Office, includes Ghazvin Municipal Security Council.
This office is open from 7:15 am to 2:15 pm Tehran time.
Tel:
+98 281 3682811
+98 281 3682812
+98 281 3682813
+98 281 3682814
+98 281 3682815
+98 281 3682816
Fax:
+98 281 3682941
+98 281 3682895
You can also contact the following offices in Iran:
· The Supreme Leader: Ayatollah Khamenei
Tel:
+98 21 64412020
· The Head of Judiciary: Ayatollah Shahroudi
Tel:
+98-21 22741002
+98-21 22741003
+98-21 22741004
+98-21 22741005
· The President: Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Tel:
+98 21 88825071
+98 21 88825072
+98 21 88825073
+98 21 88825074
+98 21 88825075
If you have difficulty contacting the officials inside Iran, please contact the Iranian officials in your country of residence for some of whom the telephone and fax numbers are listed below.
· United States: Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Washington, D.C.
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Wednesday June 20, 2007, 8:29 am
Dear Friends,
I had posted this news yesterday as soon as it was released. It has had no response and as we are running out of time to save this couple from stoning, ( we have less than 24 hours) I am asking you to please contact the Iranian Embassy nearest you to protest this action.
Their only crime was to be in love and have a child out of wedlock.
They have served 11 years in prison and their child has lived all those years without the natural parents.
As if this was not punishment enough, now they are going to be executed by public stoning.
You have recently heard of the death of Du'a, the 17 year old Kurdish girl who was stoned for falling in love a boy outside of her community.
This is the most brutal and horrific form of execution.
We appreciate every effort you can make to contact the Iranian Embassy and/or the Iranian Judiciary personally and to pass this on to all of your friends in your network and beyond.
Wednesday June 20, 2007, 8:47 am
Oh my Goddess! I know I posted the UTube stoning of the Kurdish girl on Fierce Women...I will send emails now. This in horrible...barbaric practice!
Wednesday June 20, 2007, 9:03 am
Noted and signed, be sure.
This barbaric ant terrible is from another age. It is unadmissible to se such a sadism actually.
Wednesday June 20, 2007, 9:30 am
been mostly off here and will be, can't do faxes typing still too hard, will try make phone call to Ottawa, today if my speech levels out so I can be understood. I did sent out activist alert for everyone to do what can, often can only c'/p, anyone pls c/'p yourselves and send out from here with working links
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/403534
Wednesday June 20, 2007, 9:53 am
yes ty that is the one I signed prior. Also u can from my share if u click on "comments", there is a drop down box to GROUPS U BELONG TO AND CAN SEND THE SHARE OUT, I DELETE THE WORD "DISCUSS" & SUGGEST U DO TO, SO URGENT IS SEEN ASAP & MORE OF THE TITLE. YOU BTW CAN DO THIS FROM ANYONES SHARE, INSTEAD OF MAKING UR OWN UNLESS U SO DESIRE.
Wednesday June 20, 2007, 10:09 am
I called the Iranian Embassy in the US. They didn't know what I was talking about transferred me a few times. Then the man told me that they don't do stonings because they have enough problems. He wanted to know where I got the information. He said that he would check it out but that sometimes people "just make up news."
Wednesday June 20, 2007, 10:12 am
Petition signed. This barbaric practice must be stopped now before more lives are layed waste due to barbaric customs. Lots of love and light to you all from Lisbeth and the lads in Denmark.
Wednesday June 20, 2007, 10:41 am
These 3rd world people still live in mid-evil times and refuse to leave their 2000 year old traditions behind. What a very barbaric tradition of cruel justice and they refuse to change. Noted and taking action. Does anyone know if Amnesty International or any other humanitarian organization has been informed of this? Thanks for this alert Indigo. On it!
